Hi everyone. I recently picked up a bone stock 2006 MCS in Pepper white!

This was the car after an april fools day joke at my office...


I just received some Rota Grid V wheels that are already at the shop to be powdercoated


and ST XTA Coilovers that have the camber plates on the fronts.


The car has 87k miles on it so i put together a small list of suspension pieces that i'm going to order from WMW but wanted to see if anyone has any other suggestions for while i'm in that area taking things off:

Rear H-Sport (Hotchkis) sway bar
Powerflex front control arm bushing kit
Powerflex front sway bar bushings
Powerflex rear upper shock mount bushings
Powerflex rear trailing arm bushing inserts
Powerflex steering rack bushing
WMW Adjustable swaybar Endlinks
H-Sport (Hotchkis) rear camber link (lower control arms links)

Thanks in advance and looking forward to meeting some local members!

- David

 

Welcome to the MINIacs!

...at least it was hermetically sealed...

Motor on!

 

Hahaha. Welcome! My colleagues at work refereed to my pepper white MCS as "RC Car". I replaced the stock antennae with shorty stub and they still call it "RC Car" ;P

 

...and I hope your April fool's revenge was swift and severe!

 

Welcome! The Rotas are nice wheels. We have a couple customers that run them and they look great on the MINIs! As for your mods list, why not add a JCW strut brace which mounts with the strut tower bolts? Seems like MINI might be phasing these out for the first Gen's...but we currently have 2 in stock!

http://www.minipartsmass.com/partloc...catalogid=8452

 

 

HAHA I guess thats one way to look at it....

Haha thats pretty funny. I haven't gotten that yet but I do have the stubby antenna.

Oh it was... I stayed late and shrink wrapped all the items on their desks Love that heat gun... so much fun


Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into the bars next

 

Welcome to the community! You will find numerous helpful folks here that can help with all sorts of quirky issues with being a MINI fanatic. Enjoy your new ride.

 

Wheels are back from powder coating! This is dark grey in the light but look much darker at night. Got tired of the flat black and regular gloss black so wanted to keep them dark but something a little different.

 

Great color combo, I love the pepper white and black look.

 

Sweet. Now put them on and share pics!